Re: Sun4 and Radius (fwd)

Brian 'MegaZone' Bikowicz ((no email))
Thu, 19 Oct 1995 13:38:02 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Leo Savage shaped the electrons to say...
>I have the same problem with BSD/OS. BSDI says they do not use shadow.h
>and the getspnam() function Livingston RADIUS is looking for, and that
>instead the standard getpwnam() etc. functions return the proper password
>if you are UID zero, or "*" otherwise. Seems a more reasonable approach
>to me. I haven't gotten around to hacking radiusd yet, tho.
>
>For now I've compiled radiusd without shadow passwords, and it seems to
>work except that "Password = UNIX" will of course not work.

Why not? Leave the -DNOSHADOW in and compile Radius, and it should work.
We just ask UNIX if this guy is ok, it checks the shadow password because
it is built in, and tells us.

We do work with UNIX passwords on BSDI, including shadow.

-MZ

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